The Rogue's Gallery

[Malakar]

In my party, I would do much less damage overall if I was SS oriented.
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Actually, if you use SS with swords, it's roughly equal damage overall to Backstab. It also has the advantage of being easier to use, and builds up a 5 point combo more quickly. (The quicker 5 point combo Eviscerate was taken into consideration in damage comparisons.)

Backstab does remain the higher DPS option with daggers (~22-33% higher depending on rank breakpoints), but again it takes longer to build up combo points and of course draws more aggro.